Earth-Cool, and Dirty

Bachinger Jacob Lee

Description

Earth-cool, and Dirty is a timely debut collection by Jacob Lee Bachinger, full of wisdom, and beautiful reflections on the state of humanity. It is a call to pay careful attention to the earth, to nurture it in the same way we attend to the people we love. In “My Son Asleep, Age 4,” he observes: “What no one told me, what I’ve had to learn for myself: to love this much is painful.”

Sujets

• Death
• Grief
• Poetry
• Loss
• Subjects
• Themes

Informations

• Publié par: Radiant Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781989274637
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

In this promising first collection, Bachinger gives us direct poems with a sense of the moment and the ordinary, that see the landmarks of our lives without embellishment. The wilderness here is surprisingly close, it’s the nature of every day as we, like some of these creatures, find ourselves “gambling with oblivion”. I found myself re-reading some favourites for both the pleasure and the thought.
Bruce Rice The Vivian Poems: Street Photographer Vivian Maier
Coming to us at a time when the words “climate emergency” seem to be everywhere and we’re seeing the emergency up close and firsthand, these gorgeously precise, contemplative poems offer not a balm, nor an escape, but a much-needed awakening. Bachinger’s intense engagements with Thoreau and Heraclitus are personal and expansive; his Su Tung-p’o poems are exquisite. Sonically alive, metaphorically fresh and wonderfully tight, the poems in Earth-cool, and Dirty take us deep into place, relationships, and the nature of desire. I will be thinking about this book for a long time.
Brenda Schmidt Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road
Jacob L. Bachinger’s poems are full of careful observation of the natural world, of people. There are elegies for disappeared grosbeaks, a discarded plastic bag, and the weeds that take over the yard of an abandoned house. But there is also music and reverence and belonging. Like the poet-governor in his eponymous poem, Bachinger’s words lead ever homeward.
Monica Kidd Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
“True poems, as Jacob Bachinger says in his homage to imagist William Carlos Williams, “ release the heart.” And having read and re-read this excellent book, my heart is transported. Bachinger is, himself, an accomplished imagist, an acute observer, and one is sharply aware of that from the rich blast of sensory detail in the book’s title piece. Earth-cool, and Dirty brings alive the simple spud in someone else’s hands. Some of the stunning imagery that follows is also reserved for hands: his dreaming son’s “ sleep-softened fingers./ They feel like blossoms.” ; and his retired farmer grandfather’s work-worn paws, “ brown and rusty…like his idle hand tools.” I urge you to give yourself over to this true poet and allow his hands to liberate you.”
Roger Bell
Candy Cigarettes: A Small Town Memoir

earth-cool, and dirty

Copyright @ 2021 Jacob Lee Bachinger
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher or by licensed agreement with Access: The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (contact accesscopyright.ca ).
Editor: Zachariah Wells
Cover art: Jaynie Himsl
Book and cover design: Tania Wolk, Third Wolf Studio
Printed and bound in Canada at Friesens, Altona, MB
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of Creative Saskatchewan, the Canada Council for the Arts and SK Arts.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: Earth-cool, and dirty / Jacob Lee Bachinger.
Names: Bachinger, Jacob Lee, author.
Description: Poems.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210283319 |
Canadiana (ebook) 20210283327 | ISBN 9781989274613
(softcover) | ISBN 9781989274620 (PDF)
Classification: LCC PS8603.A299 E27 2021 | DDC C811/.6—dc23
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for Shannon


One: The Depths
Earth-cool, and Dirty
Two: The Weeds That Run Amok
Map of the World
Morning
Slow Life
Pileated Woodpecker
Desire
Constellations
Grief
The First Snowfall
Ghost Stories
The Snow Tells Its Story
The Nature of Every Day Is One and the Same
Morning (II)
Three: The Garden That Got Away
Poems
To Su Tung-p’o: Poet-Governor (1037–1101)
For Thoreau
The End of Nature
When Birds Attack
Breathless
Hand-Tools
Little Italy
Apples
Backyard
April Twilight
At the Rapids
To Heraclitus: Nature Loves to Hide
Buteo
Audubon
Immortal by the River
Four:The Preservation Of The World
To Heraclitus: One Cannot Step Twice into the Same River
My Son Asleep, Age 4
Grandpa: Post-Pastoral
Empty Hands
Autumn Marsh
Ad Larem
Loss
In Wildness
Black-Capped Chickadee
Snowmageddon
Wisconsin Regained
Five: wild clusters of inedible fruit
For Dr. Williams
Yardwork in November
Birch Trees
In Preparation
Dogberry Season
The Green Man for Dinner
As Mushrooms
The River
Où sont les neiges d’antan?
Funeral
Six: The Grace
Promise
Notes
Acknowledgements

one the depths